If India did not have a huge burden of BPL population, cutting of people traveling to Saudi would have been much easier. It is time all countries stopped allowing their citizens to travel to that hell hole.

This rule, is however, not new. It has been in force for a long time. Compare this with PRC. They would force all restaurants to remain open and serve food in East Turkestan. Consider Saudi under Chinese occupation.

If India did not have a huge burden of BPL population, cutting of people traveling to Saudi would have been much easier. It is time all countries stopped allowing their citizens to travel to that hell hole.

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That's just too harsh, normal saudi are cools, its the muttawa who are fanatic in implementing the sharia laws.

This rule, is however, not new. It has been in force for a long time. Compare this with PRC. They would force all restaurant to remain open and serve food in East Turkestan. Consider Saudi under Chinese occupation.

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Dude we allow all equal opportunity to practise their religion. Forcing shops to remain open is not right.

That's just too harsh, normal saudi are cools, its the muttawa who are fanatic in implementing the sharia laws.

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I agree that many Saudis are yearning for a freer society, and there are few that are trying to keep the society restricted. However, right now, the orthodox clerics have a sway. Therefore, I feel that it would have been much nicer if Indians didn't have to live and work in KSA. In other words, lift the country out of poverty, so that people are not forced to go and live there.

I agree that many Saudis are yearning for a freer society, and there are few that are trying to keep the society restricted. However, right now, the orthodox clerics have a sway. Therefore, I feel that it would have been much nicer if Indians didn't have to live and work in KSA. In other words, lift the country out of poverty, so that people are not forced to go and live there.

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even if everyone in india got rich, we would still need people there to maintain business and diplomatic relations.
we cant isolate ourselves from other nations or try to isolate them by boycotting them.

even if everyone in india got rich, we would still need people there to maintain business and diplomatic relations.
we cant isolate ourselves from other nations or try to isolate them by boycotting them.

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Diplomatic staff have diplomatic immunity. Immigrant workers don't. In the normal countries, immigrant have certain basic rights. KSA or PRC does not. KSA and PRC sit in the extremist zones of opposite ideologies.

Yes, and that is what makes living there undesirable, at least for one who is used to living in India or the west. Mutilations and executions are commonplace in KSA; executions are commonplace in PRC. They are both bad. Between the two, PRC is better, IMHO.